Word: advent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost every way, managing the Met is more complicated than it was a decade ago. "It used to be that people bought their tickets at the window," Bliss says. "With the advent of the credit card, most of the purchases are on the telephone. Our subscription list too has changed, from a few people buying a lot of tickets each year to many more people buying a smaller number. In the early '50s we had around 8,000 subscribers. Last year we had 28,000. All of this means a great increase in administration...
...advent of inexpensive computer power is altering offices, factories, schools and homes. But nowhere has that power made such dramatic contributions as it has in the world of the physically handicapped. Today paraplegics, quadriplegics, amputees and cerebral palsy victims are using computers to perform tasks that once seemed beyond their capabilities. Here are two young people whose daily lives have been transformed by the new technology...
Helene von Damm, for several weeks now, has been in search of the great exodus. It is proving elusive. Not a bird or a plane, the great exodus is a phenomenon whose advent is confidently predicted by journalists every two years: the mass departure of political appointees from the Federal Government. Once in a while the journalists are correct. Lack of money, 18-hour days, media prying and policy failures send droves of discouraged reformers back to the family business...
...costlier, as it calls into question the integrity of the church's teachings. Prophet Ellen G. White (1827-1915) rallied the group that became known as the Adventists following the "Great Disappointment" of Oct. 22, 1844, the date when thousands of Protestants expected the Second Coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ to occur. When it did not, White, a "messenger" of God and interpreter of the Bible, said she received a vision explaining that on Oct. 22 Christ had entered a new "sanctuary" in heaven to begin "in vestigative judgment" of the lives and works of believers. Then White...
...What Computers Can't Do and so sets the limits too high. I argued that computers will never be able to understand even simple children's stories of the sort easily comprehended by any three-year-old. In light of such limitations, people who worry about the advent of even mildly intelligent machines are like alchemists who have not turned a single pebble into gold but are already concerned about the risk of transmuting the whole planet...